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the art of making everyone else's time feel optional.
means arriving after the agreed or expected moment, turning a shared clock into a personal suggestion.
from from old english laet, meaning slow or sluggish, which itself traces to a proto-germanic root about being left behind or delayed — lateness has literally always meant getting left.
cultural elasticityfive minutes late in tokyo, an hour in buenos aires
cnn effectstudies link chronic lateness to optimism bias, not laziness
power movehistorically, arriving late signaled higher status
body clocknight owls are biologically wired toward lateness
for instance
cp time — colored people time, a us cultural shorthand for flexible arrival
fashionably late — victorian dinner etiquette expected guests 15-30 minutes past invite
delayed trains japan — a 2017 tsukuba express delay of 20 seconds prompted a public apology
academy awards overruns — oscar ceremonies have run past midnight nearly every year since 2000